Petition 11680917 Details

State:

Virginia

Location:

Cumberland

Location Type:

County

Salutation:

The General Assembly of Virginia

Filing Date:

1809-December-14

General Petition Information

Abstract:

The petitioners represent to the legislative body that a number of residents of Cumberland County have sustained "great injury" because "vicious negroes" set fire to their houses. If there are strong suspicions that certain blacks were responsible, the petitioners assert, their owners should be compelled to send them out of the state, or dispose of them within three months.